Re: Non-working patch for 3GB of memory allocation

[Alexandre Julliard]

Shachar Shemesh  writes:
> I think there is one zero too many here. Did you mean 0780000?

No, 78000000. Check loader/Makefile.in.
> So, effectively, in order to use this area, we'll need to manage it
> ourselves. Is that a correct assertion? Is there any reason we use
> malloc at all at the moment? It seems like unnecessary overhead to
> me. Don't we already know how to ask the OS for memory, and already
> know how to manage a heap inside this memory?

That's why we don't use malloc in Wine... And yes, to use the lower
1Gb we need to manage this ourselves, or fix the kernel memory
allocation algorithm. Fixing the kernel is a lot easier.